Andrea Marie Cottrell MD

If i have pink eye, should i throw away my contacts？

Wearing contact lenses when you have pink eye is a very bad idea. Like the cosmetics applied to eyes, the contact lenses should be thrown away as soon as you have the sign of pink eye. The pink eye is a highly contagious disease, so you should be very cautious about it. If you do not throw your contact lenses away and use them again after you have recovered from pink eye, the bacteria and viruses will infect your eyes and give you pink eye once more. Besides, the contact lenses will worsen your pink eye if you continue to wear them. After you have pink eye, you should isolate yourself to avoid spread the disease. You should not share your articles of everyday use with others or use the articles of other people. Keeping everything clean is also very essential.

Will crying too much cause blindness?

Well, as we know, appropriate crying is good for our health. However, excessive crying certainly is harmful for our eyes. I believe you have such an experience that crying too much, your eyes will swollen and pain. In fact, if you crying too much, it will destroy the balance of your body. As a result, your eyes would difficult to recover. So it will affect on our eyes if crying too much.

Can i put solution in my eyes with contacts in?

Contact lenses are not perfect products though they could be really amazing. But some consequences would emerge if you don't make proper use of them. Dry eyes could be a big problem, so you need to wear less of them. True, solution could be compatible with your contacts when you want to drop it into your eyes, but make sure the solution is clean.

Is there any place that makes cool custom-made prescription glasses?

There are so many that kind of stores online. I just understand you want to find the oversized prescription glasses which can cover you eye socket. I know one Firmoo which have that kind of glasses online. After you choose a kind of glasses which you like, you only provide your prescription and size when you fill the from. Then they will make the custom prescription glasses for you. Usually you can get them several days later.

Is there home tinting kit for plastic glasses?

You are not advised to tint the eyeglasses by yourself unless you have enough experiences or clear and concrete ideas about tinted glasses. Without decent experiences, your trying tinting would destroy the glasses lenses and the plastic coating. If you really wanna the tinted glasses, there are so many available tinted glasses vendors online such as the Firmoo which has grown into one of the most successful tinted glasses retailers online. It would help you get the better tinted glasses.

Can i take a short nap with contacts in my eyes?

If you just take a short nap for less than 20 minutes, you can wear your contacts. If not, you'd better take them off because of the impermeability to oxygen. This may because you feel dry in eyes after you wake up. If you often do this, it may cause your eyes to get red which may easily get infection.

Can calcium deficiency cause dark circles under eyes?

Calcium is really important to our health. And it can help build to our bone and muscles. Get enough Calcium can make sure the correct heart beats, blood vessels dilate and prevent osteoporosis. And people who has calcium deficiency will suffer many problems include bone loss, numbness and muscle spasms, irregular heart rhythms and seizures and coma etc. But as far as i know that there is no proves that calcium deficiency cause dark circles under eyes. And usually, dark circles under eyes are result of lacking sleep, or too much smoking, too much drinking and some liver problems etc.

Do you wear sunglasses for style, or to protect your eyes?

I have many sunglasses. Some of them are very expensive while some of them are not. I have to decorate myself with different sunglasses. So I will take style into consideration. But my mum often told me that I shouldn't waste my money in that way because she thought a pair of sunglasses that couldn't protect my eyes from the sun was useless. But I thought they were very beautiful and could go well with my dressing. Then I asked my mum to give me more money to buy a pair of stylish sunglasses with good quality. But my mum refused to do that because I had bought so many sunglasses and there were good sunglasses among them.

My daughter's prescription changed from 1.70 to 3.0 in less than two years. Should I be concerned?

This is common in children and teens and their prescription can change several times a year if they are in a growth spurt, so I wouldn't be to concerned.

Can pink eye be spread through the air?

Although the pink eyes are contagious, it will not spread through the air. However, you should keep the distance from the ones with pink eyes. You should not share the personal things with him, especially like the cloth. You should also take notice of the public place in spring which is the hot season with lots of bacterium. When you go swimming in the public swimming pool, you'd better wear the protected goggles to prevent your eyes from the contagious bacterium. You don't get near with people with pink eyes. When you get the pink eyes, you'd better use the eye drops to release the symptom and stay at home to treat it carefully through the diet and good sleep.